"Abide in me, and I in you," was the Master's injunction to his followers. Here is a command, gentle in its entreaty, but so full of promise in its implications that few there are who have not felt its persuasive animus and longed to obey it.
What is this "me" in which we are told to abide? Is it not the Christ, the spiritual understanding of true being?
Many students of Christian Science are familiar with the following words by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, which appear on page 370 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." She writes, "To be immortal, we must forsake the mortal sense of things, turn from the lie of false belief to Truth, and gather the facts of being from the divine Mind." But, after gathering the facts of being, do we continue to abide in the conscious knowledge of these facts? One definition of "abide" is "to continue in a place."
